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...befits this somewhat ghostly book (it was written from material collected by the defunct Louisiana WPA writers' project), its best stories for non-Orleanians are ghost stories...
...maintenance has been done since the U.S. abandoned it last spring, leaving behind millions of dollars' worth of equipment (trucks, tractors, jeeps, etc.). Camp Canol, at its peak a roaring movie set of a place populated with black-bearded men and an occasional ginghamed girl, is today a ghost town where a lonely watchman lives and only a single curl of smoke reaches skyward in the early twilight...
...ghost town of Tombstone, Ariz, was having a minor boom. The boom was due to arthritis, asthma and sinus trouble, all of which are still medical mysteries...
...class military power-rugged and resilient as Germany was-cannot live long under full-scale and free exploitation of air weapons over the heart of its territory." The Germans put some industries underground. They built concrete shelters able to withstand direct hits. One shelter in Hamburg, named the "Holy Ghost," housed 60,000 people. But all such efforts were in vain...
...about the atomic bomb last week. He was heard with respect: his classic E=mc² formula, announced in 1905, was the foundation of atomic research; a letter from him to President Roosevelt in 1939 helped set the atomic thunders rolling. Last week, in an Atlantic Monthly article ghost-written by Raymond Swing, the sage of modern science spoke...